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TIL That the US Coast Guard still has a tall sailing ship in active service, the USCGC Eagle

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eyj4 TIL in 2012, the White House responded to a petition to have a Death Star built by stating that “the Administration does not support blowing up planets” and that it would not fund a weapon “with a fundamental flaw that can be exploited by a one-man starship”.
pDXN TIL a Seatlle punk band The Gits had a lead singer who was murdered in the 90s. DNA found her murderer a decade later.
69Qdw TIL about Scheele’s Green (aka Schloss Green), an arsenic-laced artificial color very popular in the 19th century, showing up in artificial flowers, candles, toys, fashionable ladies’ clothing, soap, beauty products, confections, and wallpaper and leading to scores of deaths.
5Yp1P TIL the animal characters in the Jungle Book were named with the Hindi name for what animal they are. And that loosely translated Shere Khan means Tiger King
DQKnp TIL that okra features heavily in Caribbean, Indian and Nigerian cooking. It is a much more widespread vegetable than I had first assumed